Cotton-chopper



(No Model.)

.S. S. KENT, W. G. BOLER 8v W. W. KENT.

COTTON GHOPPER.

No. 447,046. Patented Feb; 24,1891.

UNITED STATES PATENT @Erica STEPHEN SIMPSON KENT, WILLIAM GARY BOLER, AND WILLIAM WARREN KENT, OF MACON, GEORGIA.

COTTON-CHOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters 'Patent No. 447,046, dated February 24, 1891. Application led November 24, 1890. Serial No. 372,513. v(No model.)

T @ZZ whom, t may concern: which is inwardly bent and provided with an Be it known that we, STEPHEN SIMPSON opening 1l, which loosely receives the upper l KENT, WILLIAM GARY BOLER, and WIL- end of a hoe-handle 12, adapted to recipro- LIAM VARREN KENT, citizens ot the United cate and vibrate therein, 'said handles being 5 States, residing at Macon, in the county of provided at their lower ends with a chopper 55 Bibb and State 'of Georgia, have invented a or hoe 13 of ordinary construction. rlhe hoenew and useful Cotton-Chopper, of which the handles 12 are provided with bearing-clips following is a specilication. 14. a slight distance below their centers, each This invention relates to cotton-choppers of said bearing-clips serving to loosely cony io of that class employing vertically-reciprocatneet a crank portion 9 and the handle. Ad- 6o ing and laterally-vibrating choppers or hoes; jacent to the rear bearing-hanger 6 there is and the objects in view are to provide achopsecured upon the shaft 8 a beveled pinion l5. per of the aforesaid class of cheap and simple In suitable bearings 16, depending from the construction, adapted accurately to perform sides of the frame, is journaled an axle 17,

r 5 its work, and `particularly to provide a simwhich extends' beyond the frame and carries 65 ple means for guiding the choppers in their a pair of ground-wheels 18 `of usual form. vibrations and reciprocations, and this with- At one side of the center there is secured to out the necessity of expensive joints, and to the axle alarge pinion 19, which engages with avoid constructing the hoe or chopper hanand operates the smallpinion 15.

zo dles in sections. The machine being put in motion, the axle 7o The invention consists in certain features is rotated by reason of its rigidity with the of construction and novel combination of ground-wheels, and through lthe medium of parts hereinafter specified, and particularly the gears 19 and 15 the shaft 8 is rotated, and pointed out in the claim. by reason of its cranks 9 the chopping-hoes Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a are vertically reciprocated and laterally vi 75 side elevation ofacotton-chopper constructed brated to and from contact with the growing in accordance with our invention. Fig. 2 is a plant, which is thus effectually thinned.

plan view. Itwill be observed that the construction of Like numerals of reference indicate like our machine is extremely simple and the opparts in all the figures of the drawings. eration thereof extremely etiicient. It will 8o In practicing our invention we employ a also be observed thatthehoe-handles l2, usurectangular frame 1, formed of light metal ally formed in jointed sections, are here and having its two terminals converged at its formed rigidly,` whereby they are greatly front end, as at 2, to be clamped to the oppostrengthened, less liable to break by their site sides of a draft-beam. To the rear sides constant pounding upon the plant, and the 85 of the frame are secured the usual handles 8 formation of expensive joints Wholly avoided, to be grasped by the operator following after and yet at the same time this is accomplished the chopper. Between the two end bars 4 of bya cheap and simple means and one which the frame thereis located apair of transverse does not affect the positiveness ot' the move- 4o bars 5, which are provided at their centers ment of the hoes. 9o with depending bearing-hangers 6, which Having described our invention, what we register with a similar pair of hangers 7, declaim ispending from-the end bars 4. In these `four The combinatiom with the rectangular hangers there is journaled a longitudinal frame having the transverse bars 5 and the shaft S, which shaft, near its ends and` beend bars 4, the depending bearing-hangers-G 95 tween the pairs of hangers 6 -and 7, is proand 7, secured to the transverse and the end vided with cranked portions 9, said cranks bars, the shaft 8, journaled in the hangers being oppositely disposed with relation to and provided near its ends with oppositelyeach other. Extending upwardly from each .disposed cranks, the upwardly and inwardly 5o end bar is a standard 10, the upper end of bent standards 10, perforated at their upper roo ends above the cranks, the rigid hoe-handles In testimony that we claim the foregoing as 1Q, mounted for reeiprocation and vibration our own We have hereto afxed our signatu res in the perforations of the standards, lhe clip in presence of two witnesses.

14, connecting the handles to the cranks, and A T f Tf1 5 thehoes connected to the handles, of the axle l' journaled in the frame, the ground-Wheels TILLIAI VVARRF {(FT lliereof, the large pinion mounted on the axle J J and the small pinion mounted upon the orank- Ttnessesz shaft and engaged and driven by the large J. L. ROUSSEAU,

io pinion, substantially as specified. R. E. GAMBLE. 

